Editorial Board
- Animal Viruses Section
- Coronaviruses Section
- Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals Section
- Human Virology and Viral Diseases Section
- Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa Section
- Invertebrate Viruses Section
- Bacterial Viruses Section
- Prions Section
- General Virology Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: viral pathogenesis and regulation of innate immunity; hantavirus pathogenic mechanisms; dengue virus; regulation of innate immunity
Interests: HIV infection; antiretroviral therapy; HIV non infectious comorbidities; SARS-CoV-2; viral hepatitis in prison setting
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Interests: phage–host interactions; food microbiology; functional genomics
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Interests: antimicrobials, antiviral, gut microbiota, plant extracts, bioactive compounds
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Interests: human retroviruses; virus assembly; reverse transcription; retroviral diversity and evolution; antiretroviral
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Interests: human antibody engineering; use of human antibodies in discovery research and in the treatment of human diseases
Interests: neuroinflammation; neuro-immunemodulation; chronic inflammation; brain pathogenesis; HIV associated neurological disorders; drugs of abuse; innate immune response
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Interests: HIV latency, persistence, and cure; humanized mice; protein kinase C
Interests: My research interests are focused in understanding the molecular mechanisms implicated in human viruses pathogenesis. In the last two decades, I have being studying how the genetic variability of HIV-1 and HCV has influenced virus pathogenesis, immunogenicity and response to antiviral therapy. Recently, I have explored how synonymous codon mutations impact HIV-1 protein expression and virus replication capacity. Codon or codon pair biases and HIV-1 RNA dinucleotide frequencies (e.g., CpG/UpA) affect host innate response, virus latency and pathogenesis (reviewed in Jordan-Paiz, Franco and Martinez, Frontiers in Microbiology 2021; Martinez et al Nucleic Acids Research 2019; Martinez et al Trends in Microbiology 2016).
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Interests: HIV; HIV persistence; viral reservoir; eradication; latency; replication-competent reservoir; inducible reservoir
Interests: filoviruses; endocytosis; virus entry; enveloped viruses
Interests: HPV; hepatocellular carcinogenesis
Interests: prions; prion strains; protein misfolding; neurodegenerative diseases; chronic wasting disease; cell tropism; prion disease transmission; PRNP genetics
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Interests: virus entry mechanisms; membrane fusion; host restriction factors; host factors required for virus entry; nuclear import; fluorescence microscopy; live cell imaging; membrane biophysics
Interests: HIV; reverse transcription; drug resistance; genetic variation; proteolytic processing; HIV protease
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Interests: DNA tumor viruses; papillomaviruses; cancer disparities; organotypic cultures; oncolytic viruse
Interests: Merkel cell polyomavirus; Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
Interests: respiratory epithelial cell biology; pediatric lung disease; respiratory viral infections; respiratory syncytial virus; asthma; cystic fibrosis; in vitro models; vaping
Interests: Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus; HIV; SIV; cytomegalovirus
Interests: computational modelling; data analysis and evolutionary theory of viral infections
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Interests: vaccine; COVID-19; immune responses; Zika; HIV
Interests: HIV; retroviruses; restriction factors; innate sensing; antiviral deaminases
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Interests: hepatitis virus; HBV; host factors; antiviral factors
Interests: human cytomegalovirus; antiviral
Interests: tumor virology; transcriptional control; cancer; oncogenes; adenovirus; human papillomavirus
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Interests: HIV/AIDS; Ebola; influenza; parvoviruses
Interests: HSV; chromatin; epigenetic regulation of DNA viruses; gene expression; host-virus interactions; latency
Interests: pathology; electron microscopy; transplantation; polyomaviruses; polyomavirus nephropathy
Interests: environmental virology; algal-virus ecology and biology; host–virus infection dynamics; virus diversity; ocean biogeochemistry
2. College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Interests: vector-borne viruses; emerging viruses; viral zoonoses; viruses at the environment/animal/human interface; West Nile virus; Usutu virus; Borna disease virus; MERS and SARS coronaviruses
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